[theme-reviewers] Grandfather Themes?

[Chip Bennett]

You could, of course, create your own Plugin that has such functionality.
Alternately, you could recommend existing Plugins for your users to use.


On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Greg Priday <greg at siteorigin.com> wrote:

> From a user's perspective, what do you all feel would be the best way to
> update a theme that has "plugin domain" functionality?
>
> The best strategy I've thought of is to just include a nag to install the
> "advanced features" plugin. It just feels risky pushing an update that you
> know will break 10s of thousands of sites - even if a site will only be
> broken until a user installs the plugin.
>
> Has anyone thought of a better strategy?
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Edward Caissie <edward.caissie at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <
>> philip at frumph.net> wrote:
>>
>>> We all agreed that it would be case by case at that point, hence
>>> grandfathering.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I would say, although I no longer recall our conversation, that
>> "grandfathering" would be for the case-by-case exceptions (at best).
>>  As far as the rest of the arguments (and I did re-read that entire
>> linked archive) I would still lean towards *not* grandfathering any themes
>> for much of the same reasons Chip brought forward in his response.
>>
>> If an older theme absolutely requires code that will not meet current
>> guidelines the theme author is more than welcome to present their case for
>> an exception. If an exception is granted and subsequently over-looked by a
>> reviewer we will make every effort to address the issue ... and let us
>> remember "to err is human".
>>
>>
>>
>> Edward Caissie
>> aka Cais.
>>
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